Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 別

Modern (Beijing) reading: bié

Preclassic Old Chinese: brat

Classic Old Chinese: brat

Western Han Chinese: brat

Eastern Han Chinese: brat

Early Postclassic Chinese: bet

Middle Postclassic Chinese: bet

Late Postclassic Chinese: bet

Middle Chinese: bet

English meaning : to separate, branch off

Russian meaning[s]: 1) различать; разница, отличие; 2) отделять(ся); разлучаться; разлука; 3) другой; чужой; особый; исключительный; 4) в другом месте; особо; 5) запретительное отрицание; 6) Бе (фамилия)

Comments: For *b cf. Xiamen pat⁸ (lit. piat⁸), Chaozhou, Fuzhou piek⁸, Jianou pie⁶. Also read MC pet, OC *prat id.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 18

Four-angle index: 2871

Karlgren code: 0292 a

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